{"id":604873,"date":"2009-11-11T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"19cb95c3-e3f0-413b-8cc1-80c9d426155e"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:09:50","slug":"lawmakers-call-for-emergency-sick-leave-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604873","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Call For Emergency Sick-Leave Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"Lawmakers are calling for\u00a0new legislation that would require\u00a0businesses to\u00a0provide\u00a0paid emergency sick-leave\u00a0because of\u00a0the swine flu pandemic.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/health\/la-na-flu11-2009nov11,0,4904843.story\" >The Los Angeles Times<\/a> reports: \"Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), chairing a health subcommittee hearing Tuesday, said that requiring businesses with 15 or more employees to offer seven paid days off a year would end a dangerous choice 'between staying healthy and making ends meet.'\"\u00a0Some conservative lawmakers\u00a0argue, though, \"that Democrats are using a public health crisis as momentum for faulty legislation that would harm businesses by inviting abuse by workers. ... There currently is no requirement for businesses of any size to provide paid sick leave\" (Markman, 11\/11).<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/-wcvCWNgPIk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are calling for\u00a0new legislation that would require\u00a0businesses to\u00a0provide\u00a0paid emergency sick-leave\u00a0because of\u00a0the swine flu pandemic.\u00a0The Los Angeles Times reports: &#8220;Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), chairing a health subcommittee hearing Tuesday, said that requiring businesses with 15 or more employees to offer seven paid days off a year would end a dangerous choice &#8216;between staying healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xm1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}